Senior-services tax on the ballot in Bloomingdale Township

BLOOMINGDALE TOWNSHIP — Both village and township residents will be deciding in the August election whether to fund senior services in Bloomingdale Township.

The township board officially put on a 0.25-mill request to have the nonprofit South Haven Area Senior Services expand its program into Bloomingdale Township.

“This is just to put it on the ballot,” Trustee William Cain told the audience last week. “This doesn’t mean we’re for it or against it.”

Right now, the nonprofit South Haven Area Senior Services organization provides programs to the cities of Bangor and South Haven along with the townships of Arlington, Bangor, Columbia, Geneva and South Haven with limited services in Covert.